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Monday, June 14, 2010

Slideshow Video: Corpus Christi 2010 at Assumption Grotto

A few notes about this slideshow video:

This took place on Sunday, June 6, 2010. The Noon Mass was a solemn high in the extraordinary form, and it was an external celebration of Corpus Christi which fell on Thursday, June 3. It was an orchestra Mass: Haydn's Paukenmesse. The celebrant was Fr. Aidan Logan, O.C.s.o.

The photos of the Mass are few and begin at the homily because I, the photographer, was also in the choir. I escape through the back of the risers in the back to get a few choice shots (shhhh... don't tell Fr. Perrone).

Fr. Perrone was not celebrating because he was conducting the orchestra. He had just enough time to put on his cassock, surplice, and stole, and to grab his biretta.

Immediately following the Mass, the annual Corpus Christi procession began around the grounds of the parish, to the altars set up by families.

Regrettably, I did not have the right lens on for crowd shots of the roughly 250 who participated.

I tried to find a nice Pange Lingua for the background music, or the sequence of the day, Lauda Sion. However, nothing was of the right length for what I had. Alas! I discovered the Sanctus in the Missa Pange Lingua by Josquin des Prez, which was nearly perfect in length, which is what you hear playing in the background.

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron

St. John of the Cross

Dark Night of the Soul (2.2:3)...

"...the devil causes many to believe in vain visionsand false prophecies; and strives to make them presumethat God and the saints are speaking with them; and they often trust their own fancy. And the devil is also accustomed, in this state, to fill them with presumption and pride, so that they become attracted by vanity and arrogance, and allow themselves to be seen engaging in outward acts which appear holy, such as raptures and other manifestations. Thus they become bold with God, and lose holy fear, which is the key and the custodian of all the virtues; and in some of these souls so many are the falsehoods and deceits which tend to multiply, and so inveterate do they grow, that it is very doubtful if such souls will return to the pure road of virtue and true spirituality."